context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …

Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi’s slums without proper access to … event history analysis, childhood mortality is shown to remain very high in the Nairobi informal settlements, especially …

This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in … Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in … reduced fertility. These results are consistent with women having greater control over their fertility decision. …

Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement … were positively associated with wages of low-educated workers and women in non-agricultural activities, while no such …

While there is consensus on the need to raise the time spent in the market by European women, it is not clear how these … market entry increase women's entrance in the labour market, but they also increase exits from the labour market, with …